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Mr. Lee M. Thomas served as the Chief Executive Officer of Rayonier Inc. from March 1, 2007 to January 1, 2012 and its Executive Chairman from July 1, 2007 to May 17, 2012. Mr. Thomas also served as the President at Rayonier Inc., from March 1, 2007 to October 1, 2010. He served as the Chief Operating Officer of Georgia-Pacific Corporation (now Georgia-Pacific LLC) from March 28, 2003 to December 2005 and its President from September 2002 to December 31, 2005. Prior ... to Rayonier, Mr. Thomas spent thirteen years in various executive roles at Georgia–Pacific. He joined Georgia-Pacific Corporation in 1993 and held executive positions overseeing building products, consumer products, packaged products, paper and chemicals, and environmental and governmental affairs. Mr. Thomas served at Georgia-Pacific as the President of Building Products and Distribution from March 2002 to September 2002, Executive Vice President of Consumer Products from August 2000 to March 2002, Executive Vice President of Paper and Chemicals from December 1997 to August 2000, Executive Vice President of Paper from January 1997 to December 1997, Senior Vice President of Paper from February 1995 to December 1996, and Senior Vice President of Environmental, Government Affairs and Communications from February 1994 to January 1995 and Senior Vice President of Environmental and Government Affairs from March 1993 to January 1994. Mr. Thomas served as the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer at Law Companies Environmental Group Inc., from 1989 to 1993. He served as Executive Chairman at Rayonier Inc., from July 1, 2007 to May 17, 2012. He serves as a Member of Advisory Board of Angeleno Group, LLC. He has been an Independent Director of Airgas, Inc. since 1998, Regal Entertainment Group since May 10, 2006, E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company since December 2011, and DuPont Company (Singapore) Pte Ltd., since December 2011. He has been a Director of DuPont do Brasil S.A. since 2011. He serves as a Director of Resolve, Inc., the National Merit Scholarship Corporation and the World Resource Institute. He served as a Member of Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. Mr. Thomas held numerous federal and state government positions, including positions with the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Office of the Governor of South Carolina. He served as an Executive Director of Rayonier Inc. from June 2, 2006 to May 17, 2012. He served as Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency from 1985 to 1989. He Chairs the School of the Environment Advisory Board at the University of South Carolina. He served as a Director of Fort James Corporation. He served as Executive Director of Rayonier Inc., from June 2, 2006 to May 17, 2012. He served as a Director of Georgia-Pacific Corporation from May 2002 to December 2005. In 2000, Mr. Thomas received the National Conference for Community Justice National Brotherhood Award. Prior to his business career, Mr. Thomas spent 21 years in government with local, state and federal agencies. He received a M.Ed. from the University of South Carolina and a B.A. from the University of the South.

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